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Newport Police Department

City agency in Newport, Rhode Island, United States. Reports crime data to the FBI, and has done since 2003.

ORI
RI0030300
Type
City
County
Newport
State
Rhode Island (RI)
FBI reporting
Reporting since 2003-03-01
Location
41.4927, -71.3108

Workforce

As reported to the FBI for 2025, covering a population of 24,287.

84Sworn officers
19Civilian staff
4.24Employees per 1,000 people
24,287Population served
YearOfficersCiviliansPopulation servedPer 1,000
2025841924,2874.24
2023761624,5533.75
2022751425,0393.55
2021772425,2404.00
2020831724,2024.13
2019811624,5843.95
2018801824,8633.94
2017882824,8124.68
2016771624,0773.86
2015771623,8873.89
2014791523,9593.92
2013801523,8743.98

Officer and civilian counts are full-time employees as filed by the agency in its annual return. A dash means the agency did not report that figure for that year — it does not mean zero.

Assaults on officers

Officers of Newport Police Department assaulted in the line of duty, by the weapon reported, between 1995 and 2025. These are the FBI’s own weapon categories.

Weapon reportedOfficers assaulted
Firearm3
Knife or other cutting instrument3
Hands, fists or feet485
Other weapon53
YearFirearmKnifeHands, fists, feetOther
199510444
199600422
199700374
199800332
199911273
200010171
200100142
20020081
20030020
200400103
200500143
200600223
200700140
200800242
200900182
201001153
201100186
201200142
201300162
201400132
201501151
20160091
201700132
201800111
20190031
20200040
20210060
20220080
20230050
20240070
20250020

Why there is no single total here. The FBI publishes two breakdowns of the same assaults — by weapon, and by how the officer was deployed — and nationally they do not agree: the assignment columns sum to 1,869,337 and the weapon columns to 1,744,852, and the two match on only 84% of rows. Police Census publishes the weapon breakdown as the FBI states it rather than picking one basis and calling it ‘the total’. The file’s ‘cleared’ column is not shown either: it sums higher than the assaults themselves, so it is not a subset of what is above and we have not established what it counts.

This comes from the FBI’s Law Enforcement Officers Killed and Assaulted programme. Despite the name, the file carries no officers-killed data at all — those columns are empty for every agency and every year, so this page reports assaults only and says nothing about officers killed.

LEOKA identifies agencies by name, not by the ORI used elsewhere on this site. A row was attached only where exactly one agency in that state reduces to the same base name; 78.7% of rows matched nationwide. An agency with nothing here may have reported no assaults, or may be one of the names that did not match — Police Census does not guess which.

Also policing Newport

Jurisdictions overlap. These agencies are also recorded against the same county, so a single address may be covered by more than one of them.

Source

Agency identity, type, jurisdiction, coordinates and reporting status are as published by the FBI Crime Data Explorer, agency record RI0030300. Police Census reproduces these values without adjustment. Where the FBI publishes nothing, this page says so rather than estimating.

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